January 2012
Education Management Information Systems
How Can Holistic Education Management Information Systems Improve Education?
Information and communications technology has been transforming education at different levels. One level where the ICT has been playing a key role for over the last three decades is in the management and allocation of educational resources and providing data on students and teachers often referred to as Education Management Information System (EMIS). According to […]
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EMIS opportunities and challenges for mobile data collection and dissemination
One of the measures of an efficient education management information system (EMIS) is the extent to which returns from school censuses and surveys are accurate, timely and up-to-date. This is important for any state in terms of proper allocation of per-capita funding to schools, effective monitoring of learner enrolments and attendance, addressing emerging institutional issues, […]
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Educational Management Information Systems in Africa (and elsewhere)
Many of the international projects in which the author has been involved have been funder through the large international donors. Typically this involvement has been consultancy on the development of the requirements specification for a computer system. This is then followed by a procurement exercise which is usually a fairly lengthy exercise. This would then […]
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EMIS Development in a New Era
For the past 20 years as computer technology has revolutionized the efficiency of information gathering and management, we have been witnessing a steady and impressive progress in EMIS development in education sector in almost all developing countries. Although the development has been uneven most can claim an accomplishment of achieving the goals of improvement in […]
Let us prioritise investment in Education Management Information Systems
My work, in an information-oriented Education consulting company, has allowed me the opportunity to view EMIS work, in Africa and elsewhere, sometimes contributing to specifications and design but more frequently as a user, asking questions (reasonable questions, I think). So, for example: We work in evaluation and reviews using standard system-wide data on progress: What […]
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USAID Request for Proposals: Innovations in Education Data
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), and World Vision (collectively referred to as the “Founding Partners”) are seeking game-changing innovations with the potential to dramatically improve reading skills and low literacy rates among primary grade children. Through a multi-year initiative called All Children Reading: A Grand […]
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